Name
George Baldwin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
320945
Suffolk Regiment
12th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
George Baldwin was born in 1883 at Abbots Langley. In 1891 the Baldwin family lived at a rented cottage at Breakspeare Farm. By the time of the 1901 Census his father, Thomas, who was employed as a Railway Plate-layer had died and George, his three brothers and three sisters were living with their mother, Sarah Baldwin, at Mansion House Farm Cottage in Abbots Langley. In 1901 George worked as an Agricultural Labourer. In 1911 Mansion House Farm was occupied by John Robins and his wife Phoebe. John was employed as the Farm Bailiff. By this time George, who was working as a Cowman on the Farm, had married John Robins’ daughter, Ethel, and the couple had had a daughter, Joyce Ethel Marion. The birth of the couple’s second child, a son, was recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine in May 1916.
The Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour recorded George Baldwin for the first time in September 1916 and he was listed serving with the 10th Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment. By January 1917 he had transferred to the 7th Suffolk’s, and was reported wounded in the September 1917 edition of the Parish Magazine. In January 1918 he had returned to the 10th Norfolk battalion, and remained with this unit until the end of the War.
George was listed in the Autumn 1918, Spring and Autumn 1919 Absent Voters Records. In each of the records he gave Mansion House Cottage, Abbots Langley as his residence. In Autumn 1918 he was recorded serving as a Private with the 3rd Suffolk’s, which maybe incorrect as this battalion would have been stationed in England, and there is no evidence that he had returned from France. In the Spring and Autumn Lists he was recorded with the 12th Suffolk’s, again with the rank of Private. These lists were compiled from several months earlier, and this might explain that they record George as a Private, yet his Medal Roll Card indicates that he had obtained the rank of Corporal.
George Baldwin survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 3/10391 of the 7th & 10th Battalions Suffolk Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
